{"id":1311,"date":"2015-01-07T09:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickland.wpengine.com\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-09-15T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:37:22","slug":"i-am-a-sinner-saved-by-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/i-am-a-sinner-saved-by-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a Sinner Saved by Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I talked with Scott Fisher days after he announced his campaign and we both agreed to run very positive campaigns, focused on our differences on the issues. It&#8217;s clear he never had any intention of keeping his word, and it is\u00a0disappointing\u00a0that he would chose to attack me\u00a0and my family three days after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyone who knows my testimony, my family, friends, and many supporters, are aware that I smoked marijuana regularly in high school and my early collegiate years. Let me even go a step further and say throughout my teens and twenties\u00a0I have said and done things I wish I hadn&#8217;t. But by the Grace of God my past sins are forgiven.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and I have all smoked marijuana. I never grew marijuana. But I hope and pray that my daughters never make the mistake I made, and that, if they do fail, they know of the forgiveness readily available.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Scott Fisher knows that I represent the Christian conservative values of my constituents, so he has instead decided to focus on a post I made at 17 years old, and mistakes I made in my teens and twenties. It&#8217;s disappointing that politics has gotten to this point where even a pastor will stoop this low.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Every campaign I have run has focused on the issues, but if Mr. Fisher wants to make this campaign about my personal testimony, we can do that too.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Scott Fisher days after he announced his campaign and we both agreed to run very positive campaigns, focused on our differences on the issues. It&#8217;s clear he never had any intention of keeping his word, and it is\u00a0disappointing\u00a0that he would chose to attack me\u00a0and my family three days after Christmas. &nbsp; Anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanstickland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}